Managing kernel-updates in rpm

[parinay]

Saket,

IMO, explore the option of kABI and/or DKMS.

http://people.redhat.com/jcm/el6/dup/docs/dup_book.pdf
http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-ols2004.pdf

HTH


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Saket Sinha <saket.sinha89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>        We have a rpm which installs a linux kernel driver. Now this
> driver has some kernel-level dependencies especially Development Tools
> (kernel-headers etc) such that they depend on running kernel version.
>
> Now in the rpm we provide drivers for different kernel versions since
> the user can update the kernel. In the rpm's SPEC file, we match the
> running kernel version with our driver for that particular version and
> install it.
>
> If the user has updated its kernel to such a version whose driver is
> not present in the RPM, the installation fails. We tell user in the
> error message to update the kernel to a supported version.
>
> Now this is very cumbersome and we plan to replace it with installing
> a yum plugin through our rpm which allows user to update the kernel
> level dependencies.
>
> Is this a right approach?
>
> Regards,
> Saket Sinha
>
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